Corset-steel fastening



(NoModeL) T. O. BATES.

- CORSET STEEL FASTENING. No. 299,326. Patented May 27, 1884.

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THEODORE O. BATES, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CO RS ET- 'STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,326, dated May 27, 1884:.

Application filed September 3, 1883. No model.)

To 015 whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE G. BATES, of North Brookfield, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Corset-Steel Fastenings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention in corset-clasps has for its object to prevent the spring locking devices or arms of the clasp from being bent or sprung laterally out of place by the strain of the headed stud thereon when the corset is hooked or is being unhooked.

My invention consists in the combination, with the spring locking devices or arms, which spring behind and lock the stud into the outer part of its retaining-slot, of guards above and below it to retain both ends of the said arms from being pressed up or down by the said headed stud while in the said slot or recess, which retains it while the corset is hooked.

Figure 1 represents portions of a pair of corset-steels embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a section of the same on dotted line 00 as, and Fig. 3 a View of the lock-clasp by it self; Fig. 4:, a view of portions of a pair of steels containing a modification of my invention; Fig. 5, a section thereof on the dotted line 00 x and Fig. 6, a detail of the lock-clasp by itself, its top guard being broken out.

The corset-steel A is provided with headed studs a, as usual. The steel B is provided with my improved lock-clasps, composed of a body-plate, b, riveted to steel 13 at b, and an attached but independent spring locking device, c, shown as composed of wire shaped to form two curved arms and riveted to the steel at c, and bent to form an enlarged eye, 4, through which the headed stud a may be entered, the outer ends of the said arms being brought together, or nearly so, to form stops beyond which the stud a may pass, the arms yielding to the pressure of the stud against them, and again closing or springing toward each other behind the said stud, thus acting as a stop to keep the stud in the smaller space, 3, beyond the most contracted passage between the said arms, where the stud is to be retained when the corset is hooked or clasped about the body of the wearer. The spring: arms at their free ends are received between metal plates 2) d, which guard them above and below against deflection or movement, except that in a plane parallel with the steels.

I11 Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the upper plate, d, which serves as a guard for the spring looking device, is made as a short plate having a notch to form part of the eye or opening 3; but in Figs. 4 to 6, inclusive, the plate at is eX- tended back to the rivets b.

The spring locking device 0 is old when used with a plate under its free end, and so, also, it is old when used with a plate above its free end but prior to my invention a spring locking device such as described has never had its free ends confined, as it were, in a slot, so that the same could not be pushed out or moved in a direction at right angles to the steel B.

I claim- 1. In a corset-steel fastening, the steel A and its attached headed stud, combined with steel B, and attached lock-clasp, composed of upper and lower plates and having two spring-arms, the free ends of which are made to enter the space between the said plates, the said springarms being guarded by the said. plates and prevented from being sprung or bent up or down with relation to the face of the said steel, and being movable at right angles to the length of the slot in the said plate, whereby the arms are adapted to yield laterally to the movement of the stud in the slot, and to then spring behind the said stud, substantially as de scribed.

2. In a corsetsteel fastening, the springarms having the large opening and the contracted space between them, combined with a plate above and below them, between which the said arms may move in a direction parallel with the broad side of the steel to which the said fastening is attached, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' THEODORE o. BATES.

lVitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NQYES. 

